What's the difference between vend and vent?

Vend


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To transfer to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vegetables.
  • (n.) The act of vending or selling; a sale.
  • (n.) The total sales of coal from a colliery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
  • (2) Last year, at the suggestion of Selfridges, Hook installed and supplied a raw milk vending machine at the flagship store on Oxford Street – a novel way to sell direct to customers, as the law requires.
  • (3) The song also features Tatum's Magic Mike co-star Olivia Munn and Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe – plus a cameo role for Miley Cyrus who gets trapped under a vending machine.
  • (4) A survey conducted in 1983 revealed that the majority of the student body knew about the vending machine.
  • (5) The facility stresses self-care, and a bulletin board located near the vending machine provides numerous health education brochures.
  • (6) Instead of fostering dependency on the nursing staff the vending machine helps the students become self-reliant in reference to assessing their own health needs.
  • (7) Will the new coin fit parking and vending machines?
  • (8) As for the sanitation control of vending machines examined, 66 to 74% percent were unsatisfactory.
  • (9) Under the national rules, which are applied to other state schools, vending machines can only sell healthy snacks such as fruit, nuts and bottles of water.
  • (10) At posttest 2 in May 1990, 24% sold tobacco over the counter and 93% sold tobacco through vending machines.
  • (11) However, these differences were not found in vending machine sales.
  • (12) Like most of the Caribbean, the majority of our population lives on our beautiful coastlines, where they depend on tourism, agriculture, beach-front vending and fishing for their livelihoods.
  • (13) More polymer notes can be stacked in ATMs than paper notes, and they don't jam vending machines in the same way.
  • (14) Among a cohort of stores visited by minors at the pretest (n = 104) in June 1988, 71% sold tobacco over the counter and 92% sold tobacco through vending machines.
  • (15) s-1) were found to be linearly correlated: vMIG = 1.12 + 0.64 vEND (r2 = 0.72; n = 36).
  • (16) Sent via Guardian Witness By Karthika Gopalakrishnan 22 May 2014, 5:55 Finally spare a thought for the Guardian staff, greeted with this from our vending machines every morning.
  • (17) They get stuck in the vacuum, my wife slipped on one and fell hard on the tile floor, and I keep unsuccessfully trying to use them in vending machines before realizing they aren't real money.
  • (18) The Tories would ban the practice of peer-to-peer marketing techniques targeted at children, and also work with headteachers to terminate contracts between schools and vending machine firms.
  • (19) The move to polymer notes will land shops and banks with a bill of up to £236m , it has been estimated, because ATMs, vending machines and self-service machines will need to be recalibrated to take the new plastic notes, which are 15% smaller than the current notes.
  • (20) (Hook complied, but still thinks vending machines could be “a great way forward” for small farmers.)

Vent


Definition:

  • (n.) Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
  • (v. t.) To sell; to vend.
  • (n.) A baiting place; an inn.
  • (v. i.) To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
  • (n.) A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent.
  • (n.) The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.
  • (n.) The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
  • (n.) Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
  • (n.) Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
  • (n.) Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
  • (v. t.) To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.
  • (v. t.) To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.
  • (v. t.) To utter; to report; to publish.
  • (v. t.) To scent, as a hound.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
  • (2) Though the exercises have given the US a chance to vent its frustration at what appears to be state-sponsored espionage and theft on an industrial scale, China has been belligerent.
  • (3) Despite a 30% rate of luminal blockage in stents retrieved after indwelling times up to 3 months, the incidence of clinical obstruction in stented tracts up to 3 months was 4%, confirming other reports that significant urine flow occurs around rather than through hollow, vented stents.
  • (4) Methods compared were: (1) aspiration of stomach contents through a large, vented, multi-orificed gastric tube, and (2) indirect determination by a dye dilution method using polyethylene glycol (PEG) as the marker.
  • (5) For Vent 1, serum hemoglobin levels increased from 40 to 249 mg. per 100 ml.
  • (6) We found that venting improves the speech intelligibility, especially in background noise simulating modulated speech.
  • (7) There was a 4-10% increase in His-Purkinje (HP) and ventricular (VENT) conduction time with each anesthetic.
  • (8) Thus, the clinically feasible intervention of left ventricular venting during reperfusion was not cardioprotective.
  • (9) 6.39pm BST AstraZeneca shares tumble as investors vent their disappointment over Pfizer bid - closing summary AstraZeneca's site in Macclesfield, Cheshire, today.
  • (10) The biochemical changes that occurred in the vented culture bottles stabilized more rapidly than those of the unvented bottles.
  • (11) Whether you're a microbe at a hydrothermal vent, or a computer programmer at a software company, we all function on that same biochemistry."
  • (12) First, in order to remove that part of the systolic force which is related to intracavitary pressure, left ventricular bypass was created and the left ventricle vented.
  • (13) In Experiment 1, carbon monoxide (CO) exposure from eight 60 ml puffs increased in an orderly fashion as a function of filter vent blocking.
  • (14) boluses at a cardiac output of 2 L. At a cardiac output of 4 L., Vent 2 removed 42, 76, and 49 per cent, respectively.
  • (15) Pringle found these conferences “brilliant and often informative”, but “they used to drive me nearly frantic because of the difficulty of getting a decision.’ Katharine Whitehorn , the women’s page editor, famously declared that “the editor’s indecision is final”, but although Astor would sometimes allow his journalists to vent opposing views in print as well in person – Nora Beloff and Robert Stephens on Israel and Palestine, for example – he always had the final say.
  • (16) It was shown that parallel and side branch vents produce similar low frequency filtering effects and vent-associated reactance resonances.
  • (17) "If the fans want to vent their anger at me I can take it.
  • (18) The measurement has been carried out with and without venting.
  • (19) Trade union organisers said that the turnout had exceeded their expectations, and thousands had travelled by coach and by train from as far as Edinburgh to vent their anger at the government's cuts by marching through London to a rally in Hyde Park.
  • (20) She was outraged and turned to Twitter to vent her fury.

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